Searching for Fraud: Assessing Risk and Addressing Red Flags (4101658B)

As businesses grapple with the global economic crisis and as instances of fraud rise, auditors and internal accountants may find themselves increasingly under a microscope for "failure" to detect fraud. Learn how to guard against fraud and investigate fraud once it is uncovered. This course will give you a road map for complying with SAS 99, new audit standards and public pressures. You'll walk away with useful checklists, audit steps, lists of red flags, case studies and other practical materials that you can implement upon your return to the office.

• Learn how to stop financial statement fraud.
• Review pragmatic ways for spotting red flags and assessing risk of fraud.
• Understand where fraud is most likely to occur.

• Keeping the auditors, internal accountants and corporate officials out of trouble
• Audit requirements for searching and responding to financial statement fraud
• Types of financial statement frauds
• How frauds are commonly perpetrated
• Practical advice for spotting red flags
• Practical advice for internal auditors and accounting officers
• Valuable steps for uncovering and controlling evidence
• Investigations of suspected fraud
• Assisting at depositions and other legal proceedings
• The nature of evidence in legal proceedings

CPAs and financial professionals who review and audit financial statements, help clients search for accounting fraud, or who assist in litigation relating to fraudulent financial statements, as well as those who are associated with rapidly growing companies and companies with poor internal controls; or who want to keep fraud out of financial statements.

None

None

To ensure that all credit is properly recorded, please review your personal profile and update your CPA, CFP, CTEC and/or Bar license number(s).